Left: @AlisonHammond asks why we don't give the doctors the 35% pay restoration. Rishi Sunak says we can't afford it Right: Dr. Vivek Trivedi @BMA_JuniorDocs explains that more money has been spent on emergency cover for strikes than giving doctors the 35% pay restoration

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Heard mick lynch say the same thing about the train strikes. The government have spent more not meeting them than just agreeing to the pay demand

@implausibleblog @SeamusMurphy62 @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs The cost of hiring the unusable barges would have settled the strike

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs It’s always party & power first, the country and people second 😠

@implausibleblog @ErdmuteD @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs This is not going away Mr Sunak. @10DowningStreet

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Turns out Rishi isn't so good with numbers. Maybe he needs to take one of his new Advanced British Standard qualifications

@implausibleblog @fascinatorfun @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Then there’s the billions that was squandered on debunked PPE!

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs FFS, the 35% is negotiable but Sunak and his cronies won't get round the table and thrash it out. The fault for these damaging strikes lies squarely at the door of this government.

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs We can afford it but it’s away of making the appointment me que longer therefore forcing people to go private. And that about sounds this Mob up.

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Wouldn’t be right and wouldn’t be fair. Says a man who is directly benefiting by hundreds of millions of pounds from his own policies. Bloke is a walking disaster.

@implausibleblog @HalElshikhPsych @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs And they’re not asking for it in one go …

@implausibleblog @DrLoomisUK @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Of course they can afford it. If ScotGov can make a decent pay offer while hobbled by financial restraints of union, UKG, which has no restraints, has no excuse. It’s not a lack of cash. It’s skewed spending priorities.

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Might have been an opportune time for Alison to have mentioned the billions written off to Covid Loan fraud & the dodgy VIP PPE lane!

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Then he should pay out of his own money then shouldn't he? It's got plenty of that. I'm so he can afford it At the end of the day he has no mandate for anything in this country. We didn't vote for him he sits there all smug You can't trust a single thing he says 🤯🤯

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs We can afford, it would be right and it would be fair. You @RishiSunak are making a political choice not to pay the doctors fairly.

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs His intuitive reaction was to laugh & smile! ‘says it all……

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs That’s the bit I can’t understand It’s costing more and he’s still having a toddler tantrum and won’t talk. Bizzare.

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs All the BMA asked for is a similar deal to that in Scotland with a rise of 6% for two years and an agreement to restore parity over a specific period of time

@implausibleblog @Fossil13 @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Before answering the question he laughed at her.

@implausibleblog @FlyOnNo10Wall @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs If slimy S(u)nake stopped using his helicopter for journeys that anyone else would take by train, there WOULD be more money for doctors! But the gargantuan gaslighter carries on laughing and LYING to us all!

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs We need docs strike to stop. Docs have indicted they will compromise. As Govt haven’t moved and want to smash the NHS Docs should offer to settle as per Scotland and see if the Tories are working the miners strike playbook or serious about settling

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs ☹️

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs I have met many arseholes in my time. Farrukh. Believe me. Sunak is in the top tier. No doubt about that ! ✌️. 🙏.

@implausibleblog @SocialistHB @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs The little PM having a nice little chat on the same show that had a nice little chat with the big narcissistic PM. Is This Morning a propaganda show for Tories!

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs #slipperysushi

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs ITV is rubbish isn’t it.

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs The simple truth is we can’t afford it. Paying premium agency fees is an NHS problem paying doctors and nurses more is not going to remove that problem. What NHS managers need to do is stop paying these sky high rates and just have emergency back up from other sources military?

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Tory dogma, arrogance and denial of sensible fair policies. Why?

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs I quite like Dermot and Allison but journalistic interviewers they definitely are not, guess that's why they got gig to interview Sunak

@implausibleblog @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Ah but, that good extra spending, because that is going to the contractors, who are Tory Donors

@implausibleblog @SocialistHB @AlisonHammond @BMA_JuniorDocs Exactly. This is a deliberate vicious act by the government. If Sunak can write off £14 billion without discussion, the government can afford to pay NHS staff.